PSYCHOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychopathy mean? 

• PSYCHOPATHY (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOPATHY has 1 sense:

1. any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOPATHY (noun)

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Meaning:

Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mental disease; mental illness; psychopathy

Hypernyms ("psychopathy" is a kind of...):

mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychopathy"):

megalomania (a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur)

insanity (relatively permanent disorder of the mind)

psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)

Derivation:

psychopathic (suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder)